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"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr."
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"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions - not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes."
"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."
"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."
"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
"There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians."
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"A seed rises from dirt to prove to the world that its greatness lies not on what the world thinks of it, but from within."
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